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Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (15 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the statement of strategy of his Department. [29784/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (15 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: Five years ago, after Clerys left its workers high and dry, the Duffy Cahill report proposed a series of measures to prevent such an occurrence from being repeated. Five years of delay meant the Debenhams workers were left without legal protection when their company did the same to them. The promise was always that the Government would eventually take action. Last week, the Government...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (15 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: 16. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on education will next meet. [31401/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (15 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: Yesterday, the Taoiseach was quoted in The Irish Timesas stating that the leaving certificate is fair but does not measure the breadth of a person's ability. We could debate this. The Taoiseach is using a very narrow definition of what is fair and unfair. Yesterday, there was another story in The Irish Timeson something that even in this narrow definition appears to be very unfair for a...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Census of Population (15 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: 139. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on any engagements with the CSO with regard to the rescheduling of Census 2021. [28376/21]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Rights of People with Disabilities (15 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: 169. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the extent to which his Department supports persons with disabilities to access the mainstream job market. [31868/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Emergency Services (15 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: 219. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he plans to continue with the fully civilianised search and rescue services provided by a civilian helicopter operator (details supplied). [30493/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (15 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: 371. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the Revenue Commissioners view cohabiting couples as two individual single persons even those who have children together given that for the purpose of payments to families, the Department of Social Protection recognise cohabiting couples as a family unit (details supplied). [31576/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts Policy (15 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: 462. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention has been drawn to a report by a company (details supplied); and if she will pilot a universal basic income scheme for a three-year period in the arts, culture, audio-visual and live performance and events sectors which has been recommended by The Arts Recovery Task Force and instructed by The Programme for...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic (15 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: 456. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when she plans to allow the return of live music performances. [30691/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Reviews (15 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: 599. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question Nos.794 and 796 of 21 April 2021 and 342 of 11 May 2021, if he stands over the contents of the 9 February 2013 Report of the Independent Review of the Compulsory Acquisition of Land at Charlesland, County Wicklow by Wicklow County Council given further developments (details supplied). [31088/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (15 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: 716. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details on the arrangements in relation to the contingency arrangements for a school (details supplied) to be located in interim accommodation at a college site from August 2021 for a maximum of one academic year which were announced on 26 May 2021; the way in which she plans to ensure that the school has their own permanent accommodation...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (15 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: 743. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the struggle to get a school placement for a student (details supplied); and if her Department can guarantee a school placement for them. [31133/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: I thank the Ceann Comhairle. That was a cop-out by the Taoiseach. Last week's details of a so-called rental protection Bill suggested this would be a plan to stop the double rent hikes many tenants are facing in the next month, but the details of the plan fail to address the actual scale of the problem. Hundreds of thousands of tenants are living in fear of rent hikes of €150 or...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (16 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: The Taoiseach has taken a number of big gambles in the management of the Covid pandemic. The biggest was the decision to reopen at the end of November last year. To put it mildly, those gambles did not pay off. The Taoiseach is taking another big gamble now in relation to the Delta variant. We hope that gamble pays off and we are able to achieve sufficient levels of full vaccination, in...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health last met; and when it will next meet. [31402/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: The Taoiseach stated that he had not taken gambles in terms of Covid. That is not historically accurate. I hope that we will have a public inquiry into the management of Covid and it will be for that inquiry to judge, but the Taoiseach also said something that is for us to discuss today, that no gamble is being taken at the moment. There is a gamble or, to use a different word, a choice...

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (16 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: I raise a particular case of human rights abuses in Saudi Arabia and ask that the Taoiseach raise it at the European Council. Yesterday, the Saudi authorities executed a young man called Mustafa Hashim al-Darwish. He was arrested as a minor in 2015 as a result of participation in protests. He was held in solitary confinement and brutally tortured and in those conditions he confessed to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (16 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: We condemned it in the debate about Belarus last week.

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (16 Jun 2021)

Paul Murphy: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I did not think she would get around to me so quickly. I am very happy to be named on the amendment. I have two points to make. The first is that it is scandalous that the Government is putting a guillotine on this, the most important - or what should be the most important - piece of legislation we will pass in this Dáil. We are not getting...